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Alan Brien Tapfumaneyi born 27 Nov 1966 in Marondera Zimbabwe. He was educated at Marandellas High School graduating in 1986 with A levels in 4 subjects, Maths (applied and pure), Physics, Chemistry and Biology. He went o to attain his first degree majoring in Computer Sciences and maintained a GPA of +3.0. He has a sporting acumen and played pro sports in field hockey, rugby, basketball, squash, cricket amongst many sports. Holds a black belt in Gung-Fu ( encompassing the best of Ninjitsu, Akido and Sholin Lewa.

Alan worked for NCR at the time ATT purchased the company. He worked on VLSI Very Large scale Integrated Circuits churning out more than 2 million lines of C++ code in the short time he was there. His cod is responsible for navigation on the MX-Missiles which later became the Tomahawk Cruise Missile System.

He went on to master Oracle and developed many applications bespoke and otherwise in the oracle platform. He moved on swiftly to start his 2nd business venture Infinity Scientific Systems. This company attracted the best of the NGO, Government and Institutional clients and responsible for putting in the first of the networked systems and integrating Novell, Unix and Microsoft platforms in seaming less networks.

He went on to sell this company and moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo were he engaged the Ministry of Telecommunication to remap the frequency resources and establish a new spectrum license to enable the intro of GSM and Internet into the Congo. He successfully achieved this and was awarded a GSM license and Internet license as compensation. \this was under the Changacom umbrella. He later sold off his interest in this company and established a new venture, Africom inZimbabwe. \This entity successfully acquired a wireless local loop license and frequencies to run an ATM switched network inZimbabwe, the first of its kind. Working with SAP, Alan established the Public Finance Management System based on SAP and rolled out one of the most sophisticated networks in Zimbabwe powering over 4900 point in the geographical area. Using Newbridge, Flarion, Breezecom and other technologies, Alan then introduced the AAA security walls to protect the network from unauthorized access. He ran the company for over 5 years before selling his interest and heading to the UK. In UK, Alan arrived during the .com bust and quickly retrained as a Certified Internet Webmaster CIW; a qualification he used to acquire the licenses in Nigeria, Ghana and other select spaces in the African hinterland. In Nigeria, Alan worked with Ernest Undukwe to establish the first Broadband Wireless access network in Africa; he also established a Wi-Fi cloud in Ghana and boasts of the largest Indoor and outdoor Wi-fi in the region. After a legal battle of a hostile take over, Alan went on to establish Panafrican Telecoms (www.PANAFTELWIRELESS.COM).

he sat on the BOD and stirred the company to winning a multitude o contacts including the Rivers State government education network which networked 780 schools and established E-learning as a disciple. He wrote the curriculum and trained staff and teachers on the maintenance, distribution and channeling of the learning experience personalized for individual learners. This allowed the parents to be part of the learning process, able to access pupils results and grades online and intervene timely were pupils' maybe erring.

He is truly an establish authority and brand in the design, deployment and delivery of E-learning, Security, Networking and distribution forming alliances and partnerships with Cisco, Net gear, Microsoft and Google. He was a founding member of the TV White Space working group with Microsoft, Facebook and Google ; participating actively in servicing the Other 3 Billion O3B.

Currently Alan in working on 5G delivery and services with several deployments on the print. His expertise extends to Professional Audio and Visual and using this mantra established over 5 studios and play out station for Satellite TV and broadcast. He is also responsible for the first multi casting technologies enabling content users to harness the power o the internet to deliver bespoke content to the masses. This included the development of the first apps on 3/4G platforms.

He is highly respected in the innovation and technology circles and hold many accolades in the industry. He is undoubtedly the best of the best in his art form. For more on Alan Tapfumaneyi see his linkedIn pages and facebook and social media profiles.

alanb@datacommxpress.com; alant@panaftelwireless.com alantap360 - skypename @katalambano

Tafadzwatap (talk) 08:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)